Christine Sexton | Florida Phoenix

Once adopted, the proposed rules would implement previously announced changes the DOH said would take effect March 1 to ADAP to avert a projected $120 million shortfall.

The 2026 Senate confirmation journey has begun for acting Department of Children and Families Secretary Taylor Hatch.

Two national organizations are joining the effort by Florida Decides Healthcare to expand Medicaid to low-income childless adults in Florida.

147K able-bodied, childless adults would be required to work or lose their health care benefits under Senate proposal.

The DeSantis administration announced Tuesday that it’s developing three new rules meant to curb spending in a federally funded program that provides benefits to people with HIV and AIDS.

A state administrative judge has agreed to expedite a legal challenge to a new DeSantis administration policy that could leave as many 16,000 people with HIV and AIDS without access to prescribed medications or health insurance discounts.

Florida physicians can treat minors for sexually transmitted infections, substance abuse, and mental health problems without first obtaining parental consent. Those rights, scattered throughout Florida statues, would be eliminated, and the Parents’ Bill of Rights expanded, under HB 173.

Young children would still be required to get vaccinated before entering a Florida school or day care, but it would be easier for parents and guardians to opt out of those vaccinations under a bill passed by the Senate Health Policy Committee Monday afternoon.

A federal judge ruled this week that Florida violated the constitutional rights of hundreds of thousands of people it had removed from the Medicaid rolls following the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, when it sent beneficiaries “vague, confusing and often incorrect and misleading” termination letters.

The DeSantis administration said Wednesday it no longer will require some children to go uninsured for two months before enrolling them in the federal children’s health insurance program, or CHIP.

HB 655, a bill that amends property insurance to include coverage for pets, is one of two insurance-related bills that take effect Jan.1. The other, SB 158, prohibits the state group health insurance program from imposing any cost-sharing requirements with respect to coverage for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations.

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ law will scramble Florida’s health care system in 2026.